Sound Moves // Victor Love – ‘Neo Tokyo Underground’

The tagline for this song
reads thus: ‘I was entering a club in Neo Tokyo in 2019. Cold, rain, rust and decay
outside. But the ravers were still raving…’ and as taglines go it’s pretty
accurate. Made in tribute to Akira by artist Victor Love, this song is, in its mechanical
construction very much like entering an underground club in Tokyo.

The daylight might hold
nothing but black coffee fuelled meetings with fellow sararimen but under cover
of darkness there is much that can happen. With a sense of hope and danger
mixing together into an almost hedonistic few minutes of apocalyptic trance,
there is much to enjoy about Neo Tokyo Underground.

The beats are steady and
vibrant, whist retaining a distinctly Tokyo like edge to them throughout. Throw
in an industrial sheen to the production that counters the mechanical elements
of the song and you have a song worthy of sound tracking that movie about Tokyo
you didn’t know you wanted to make yet…